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arxiv: 0803.4137 · v2 · submitted 2008-03-28 · 🧮 math.GR · math.GT

Surface subgroups from homology

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Let G be a word-hyperbolic group, obtained as a graph of free groups amalgamated along cyclic subgroups. If H_2(G;Q) is nonzero, then G contains a closed hyperbolic surface subgroup. Moreover, the unit ball of the Gromov-Thurston norm on H_2(G;R) is a finite-sided rational polyhedron.

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